Jessica Anya Blau, MARY JANE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Jessica Anya Blau joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel, Mary Jane, which was written in part over FaceTime with friends during the pandemic. The two talked about Jessica's journey to becoming a writer, the ways in which her own adolescence figured into motherhood, and how dancing around her empty kitchen to the biggest hits of 1975 helped her write the book.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens and my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.2	Jessica Anya Blow is the author of Mary Jane. She's also the author of the nationally bestselling novel, The Summer of Naked
0:45.6	Swim Parties and three other critically acclaimed novels. Most recently, The Trouble with Lexi. Her
0:51.6	novels have been recommended and featured on CNN, NPR, The Today Show,
0:55.8	and in Vanity Fair, Cosmo, Oprah's Summer Reads, and many other national magazines and newspapers.
1:01.1	Welcome, Jessica. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss
1:05.3	Mary Jane. Yay, thank you for having me. I love all your multiple platforms and media media and I go through it all and listen to things. And I think you're wonderful. So thank you for having me.
1:17.2	You're so sweet. Thank you. Well, I'm delighted to have you too. I love your sense of humor that is in this book. I mean, I don't know if that was a primary intention. And maybe we should start with you telling listeners what your book is about and what inspired
1:31.1	you to write it and all that.
1:32.2	But I just like, you're like so quick-witted and like this sort of dark sense of humor.
1:37.5	I just loved it.
1:38.3	It's just so funny.
1:39.4	Anyway, loved it.
1:40.0	Aw, thank you.
1:41.7	Yes, the book is about a 14-year-old girl in Baltimore in 1975, who is the summer nanny for a psychiatrist who lives down the street. And over the summer, she discovers, or immediately she discovers that he's housing a very famous rock star and a movie star as the rock star tries to sober up and they're hiding in on the third floor
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